Kormath

i spent days and days of time playing F-Zero and Ocarina of Time.

huh maybe. i'll have to look around tonight while i'm out hunting and killing people in van horn, i mean doing challenges.

Can you tell i don't look at much but the RDR2 forum? been here for 2+ months and finally made it to the off topic part So.. me... Born and raised a redneck in Idaho. Grew up in a tiny town in the mountains (elevation 6000+ ft) I could walk to the river and fish, ride my bike up the hills and hunt, spend many winter weekends in snow caves "camping" in the mountains around the town. Loved it and i love going back to visit where i grew up. Parents still live there, it's just over an hour away from me now. Pretty much everything is an hour (or more) from here lol. I graduated high school in 93, moved south 2 hours from home and made an attempt at college. But the college schedule and the party schedule had to many conflicts. So like a lot of stupid 18 yr olds i chose to party instead. LIved in that college town for about 15 years. During that time i had numerous jobs, construction work, factory work, retail jobs, etc. until i found my niche with computers. That's all my parents fault BTW, we had our fist home computer in 83. Was always a hobby of mine building computers, fixing them, fixing my friend's/family's computers. So in 2003 i bit the bullet and went to work for Dell. Thought i'd hate having my hobby as a job, but i loved it, and still do. Got a new job, well new 7 years ago, and moved an hour north of the college town, so i'm only an hour from my parents now, working in IT at an engineering consultant firm. I just (a year ago, but i'm still so new to this position i squeak) got promoted to system admin/application support, so i get to support our internal servers and home-grown programs. I've always been a gaming addict. Got the NES console for christmas just after it came out when i was 10, had every console from nintendo and Sega (my brother had Sega) up through the game cube and saturn, we skipped the sega pico and 32x though, as the 32x was just an add on to the genesis and the pico was for kids. From the game cube/saturn i switched to Sony, gott the PS1 and loved it. Used to have acid parties and play Wipeout on the PS1 at my friends house all night long. Then we'd spin it up in the afternoon and sit there dumbfounded at the track records we were able to set. Couldn't get no where near those when sober lol. I was a Sony fan up through the PS3, then decided to try the Xbox 360 when my PS3 crashed. Never looked back, been an Xbox fan since and now have 2 XBox one S systems. One downstairs to control the media center and mine in my room. So there's my rambling topic jumping history. My son is an avid gamer like I am, he just joined Job Corps and found he could take his Xbox there to play in the off hours. Just the one kid, no wife anymore, they all seemed to interfere with my games lol. So now i'm home alone with just the dog and RDR2, i'm happy

way back when D&D was satanic and people wanted it banned (mid/late 80s) i was an avid player. Played 3 nights a week for years until i became a parent and those responsibilities conflicted too much with the gaming. As for my username, we were playing a module and had to interact with a black dragon. The dragon's name, at least the first part of it that we could pronounce was Kormathian. I shortened it and started using Kormath as my username online in the IRC chats and D&D styled MUD's of the late 80s/early 90s and then as the internet grew popular it became my online name for everything. I've found a few places online where someone has stolen my name but for the most part if you see Kormath, that's me.

The one you see again in Valentine is the important one. who doesn't want a free gun?

sure, kill the rider, calm their horse then ride it around and bond with it, no point in saddling it till level 1 bonding and it responds to your whistle, once saddled it's your primary horse. Problem is nobody is riding a fox trotter in the open world, and i don't think you can keep one from doing a mission, if you can find one that way, but maybe i'm wrong.

yep i get that, I'll be doing it next play through on a new game. I may try with their standard weapons just for fun though

if i'm bored and wanting to lower my honor back to red after doing missions i use the Lancaster and semi-auto shotgun to go on a killing spree. You'd think the people in Van Horn would go into hiding when they see me riding into town with those equipped, considering how many times i've made Van Horn a ghost town

go for golds in all missions, play for the full red honor bonus or full white honor bonus, craft all the items from the trapper/fence, tons to do that just getting 100% doesn't cover.

I'm going for 100% this first play through. the damn sharpshooter challenge still gets the better of me though lol. I get hat, hat, woops head shot, now every time. So soon i should get a lucky 3rd and finish that one. Not this play through. I want to do everything i can and enjoy the game this round. Next time through i'll do the golds. Seems like it's too much of a chore restoring save points repeatedly to get gold.

it's like the highlander, There can be only 1. Horses don't respawn, they die a true death. Except for the DLC horses, they have special powers.

yep so i do i other than the small animals and song bird types. Unless i'm in a mission my weapon wheel has the varmint rifle at bottom and Springfield at left.

bullsh*t. They're not found in the wild. How'd you get one in chapter 2? You can't buy the Champagne until chapter 4 and the Silver Dapple until the epilogue.

Legendary buck trinket upgrades almost every small animal to perfect. I never use the small game arrows anymore. Varmint rifle and cross fingers on the trinket working.

I've only progressed through the story missions to unlock things needed for the side content. otherwise i'd still be in chapter 2

I don't think they go away. I saved a guy in chapter 2 and got his "reward" in chapter 3.

First, get the legendary buck and craft the trinket at a fence. That gives you a chance to have a pelt upgraded. Seems to work 4 out of 5 times on small game and 3 out of 7 ish on large game in my experience. Next, study the animals, then press RB/R1 to view their info, that will tell you the preferred weapon to use to get a perfect pelt. Then use that weapon (don't use exploding rounds) and Dead eye for a headshot. If you kill a 3 star animal (you'll be able to see the star rating after studying them) you'll get the perfect pelt, or have the chance to have a 2 star upgraded by the trinket to get a perfect pelt.

I'm almost to the point i don't have any side content to do. I've made it far enough through chapter 4 I unlocked that dead eye perk. I've got maybe a dozen things left to hunt for (not counting the legendary animals and pelts only found in New Austin) to complete everything the trapper can craft. All the fence items have been crafted. All the dinosaur bones (minus New Austin) have been discovered, all rock carvings, all Legendary fish have been caught (minus new austin again). I have the horsemanship challenge to finish but i keep dying before i can get to Blackwater. Working on the weapon Expert (at 9), Herbalist At 8 (but i'm stuck as the only missing herbs i need are in New Austin), Sharpshooter at 9, Survivalist at 10 (New Austin holding me back again ). Gambler, Master Hunter, Bandit, and Explorer challenges finished.

i like them left out personally, gives your imagination room to work. Unless it's an utterly boring, way to long game like Witcher 3, then yeah put them in for something entertaining in the game.

use your favorite. I always go with the springfield rifle and semi-auto shotgun for missions.

varmint is good for headshots, really any weapon can be used with aim assist for easy headshots except the sniper rifles. Aim, tap up on the left stick, fire.

I often kill people for hats, helps get me closer to the full red honor. If i notice i'm not wearing a hat the next person that rides by with a hat i like or haven't remembered wearing is dead I've collected numerous hats this way.

i like the smaller size, to me they look and seem more nimble, the larger horses seem like lumbering hulks that should be pulling plows and wagons rather than being ridden. Besides that, if you've ever ridden a horse for a while, you get sore faster on the bigger ones than riding a smaller horse (or maybe it's just me getting old). Much rather ride an arabian or quarter horse sized than a turkoman for a full day.

I kept wanting him to hook up with Sadie or Mary Beth, or both? at once?

yeah but you can't get them until chapter 4. So why not get the best horse in the game prior to chapter 4 when you start chapter 2?